"The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history." Malcolm X
Did you know, at the BBC, Palestine already doesn't exist...
Yep, thats a map of Israel and, included as an after thought, 'Palestinian Territories' or 'Pal Areas'. A description that allows an uninformed reader to believe Palestinians are the occupiers when they really are the occupied.
Palestinians now have to live inside Israeli built ghettos which Israel call a 'security wall'.
It is three times the height of the Berlin Wall.
Palestinian homes have been bulldozed in order to construct this 'security wall'.
"Where we should go? They didn’t leave anything for us. Our houses, our belongings are crushed under their bulldozers. Are these small sheds any danger or threat to their 'security'? They are only in the way of their unlimited expansionism." Fatima Thiab Suman from Jib al-Thieb.
The wall is illegal under international law.
PLO says of it,
"In July 2004, the International Court of Justice determined that the Wall is illegal under international law and is not a military necessity. In reaching this conclusion, the Court determined that:
(1) in order to build the Wall, Israel destroyed or confiscated Palestinian property in violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention; [11]
(2) Israel’s severe restrictions on Palestinian movement violate international human rights and humanitarian law; [12]
(3) the Wall impedes the right of Palestinians to work, health, education and to an adequate standard of living; [13]
(4) the Wall severely impedes the exercise by the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination; [14]
The Court also ruled that Israel must halt construction of the Wall, return the land to Palestinians whose property has been seized and pay compensation to them."
"In 1948, we have been expelled from our land. Now in 2006, we became refugees once again. Nothing has changed from one Nakba to another - this is our life." Mohamed Abed Allah Takroori from al-Walaja.
Fatima Khaldi, from the Salfit region in the West Bank, is founder of 'Women Against the Wall',
"In 2002 women from Salfit, the region where Az Zawiya is located, formed a group named 'Women Against the Wall', in order to coordinate women's efforts against the wall. The Salfit region is heavily scarred by Israeli settlements. The wall is being built to surround those settlements and to seize much of Salfit's agricultural land. In Az Zawiya it is cutting off 80% of the village's agricultural land.
Our ancestors have owned and tended this land for generations, but now the Israeli army is uprooting the trees that are our livelihood, stealing our land, destroying our houses, and killing our people. We are only defending our land and dignity, but they call us terrorists, and claim it is their right to defend the security of the settlers who have stolen our land to build their colonies.
Palestinian women are deeply rooted in their land, and work hard to support our families. Women suffer greatly when families lose their land, often the primary source of income. We raise olive trees as if they are our children. When we lose them, we grieve deeply. This grief affects everyone in the household. The husband takes out his anger on his wife, and she in turn takes her anger out on her children. Thus the house becomes full of anger, instead of love.
Each of us has our own way of expressing anger and rejection of the occupation's oppression and humiliation. As women we are trying to find a peaceful way. We carry out demonstrations to show the whole world that we reject Israeli violence and racism. We believe that the justice of our cause, and our determination, are stronger than any Israeli weapon, and that Palestinian women are capable of accomplishing the impossible for a better life."
"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. Its people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty to never do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure." Banksy
phinebooty
and that wall took up even more of whatever little land was left to the paelstinian. Israel had great ties with apartheid south africa and how they took the africna's land there was by building surbubs within rural areas and getting people off their land, making them into farms, erecting borders and stuff like that. it's exactly the same. the difference is, palestinians don't really have the backing of the rest of the worldlike israel has of the USA(which is the rest of the world!)